Produced by Curtis Weyant, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. TYPES OF CHILDREN'S LITERATURE A COLLECTION OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN FOR USE IN COLLEGES, NORMAL SCHOOLS AND LIBRARY SCHOOLS COLLECTED AND EDITED BY WALTER BARNES, A.M. Application of the world's knowledge to the world's needs is the guiding aim of this publishing house, and it is in conformity to this aim that _Types of Children's Literature_ is published. There is need of helpful direction for parents and teachers who wish to place within reach of every child the beauty, wisdom, and knowledge stored up in the world's best literature for children. The domain is so vast, so rich, and so varied that a single volume which presents specimens of all the different types for study and analysis by older readers and for reading by the children themselves, may hope to make easy and natural for children the entrance to the pleasant land of books PREFACE This collection of specimens of children's literature has evolved itself naturally and, as it were, inevitably out of the editor's experience in teaching classes in children's literature in normal school and college, and it is published in the belief that other teachers of this subject find the same need of such a book that the editor has experienced. For it is obvious that if we are to conduct classes in children's literature either for general culture or for specific training of teachers, we must have specimens of children's literature readily accessible to the students. We must bring students to a knowledge and appreciation of any author, period, or type by having them study representative selections, and this principle applies as logically to courses in children's literature as to courses in other kinds of literature.